Striving for Contentment Quotes

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Your dreams should never be better than your real life

I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

Always, always pursue happiness.

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

Anything a person chases in life runs away.

There's a constant conflict, really, within me. As much as I really enjoy what I do at home... I play on my own little soccer team and I've been taking part in the community and living the life of any ordinary guy, I always find myself wistful and enveloped in a feeling I can't really get out of my system.

I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.

Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

I'm on the pursuit of happiness, and I know, Everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold, Hey, I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good...

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.